Major National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute COPD Research Grant Funding FY 2018
Overview
Organization: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Start Date: 10/2017
End Date: Ongoing
Primary Goal: Goal 4: Increase and sustain research to better understand the prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD.
Secondary Goal(s):
Objective(s):
- Help expand, coordinate, and optimize COPD research efforts
- Improve methods for earliest detection and diagnosis and develop effective strategies for preventing the onset and progression of COPD
- Define and characterize the pathogenesis of COPD heterogeneity
- Develop personalized medicine for COPD based on the pathogenesis and clinical heterogeneity
- Promote research that can lead to strategies that help prevent the onset and progression of COPD and improve the quality of COPD care and management
Collaboration: We worked alone
Activity Type: Research
Activity Description
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awards funding to research organizations to implement activities that further the goals and objectives of the COPD National Action Plan. For fiscal year 2018, NHLBI awarded large research grants to four organizations to support their efforts in raising awareness to better understand the prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD. The organizations funded this cycle include: Mayo Clinic Rochester; National Jewish Health; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and University of Pennsylvania.Funded research topics included:
• Biomarker of Lung Disease in African Americans;
• CT-Based Modeling of Bone Micro-Architecture and Fracture-Risk in COPD;
• Home Based Rehabilitation for COPD;
• SPIROMICS Genomics and Informatics Center (GIC) Support
Audience
General Audience: Researchers
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: N/A
Setting: Workplace
Cost and Funding Sources
It was funded through NHLBI and funds to be allotted to grantees.Impact Analysis
The FY2018 cycle awarded grants to four organizations. Results of their programs are in progress.Advice or Lessons Learned
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Contact Information
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Program Analyst
Bethesda
Maryland